Adelson Galleries.

Palm Beach
United States

318 Worth Avenue
Florida 33480 Palm Beach
United States
Phone : 561-720-2079
Mobile Ph. : 914-772-5783
Email : info@adelsongalleries.com
URL : www.adelsongalleries.com

About

For over 50 years, Adelson Galleries has handled some of the finest American paintings to come to market, placing works in major private and public collections. Distinguished for its expertise in the fields of American Impressionism, Realism and Modernism, the gallery was founded in 1965 by Warren Adelson, and is located today in Midtown Manhattan. In 2012, Warren's children, Adam and Alexa, opened a Contemporary gallery in Boston, MA.
Since 2018, the two have taken their experience and the Contemporary artists that they have cultivated to Palm Beach, where Adelson Galleries has quickly become a staple in the community.

Today, the entire Adelson family works together between New York and Palm Beach. Our program of exhibitions and stable of artists feature some of the finest examples of recent art history. We believe our international selection of living artists will fill in the blanks in our next generation’s art history textbooks. Our family believes in pursuing artists with aesthetic, technical, and academic merit. If art is a reflection of culture, we hope to provide a significant and poignant view.

Man Ray Juliet
DESCRIPTION
Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, Man Ray adopted his pseudonym in 1909 and would become one of the key figures of Dada and Surrealism. One of the few American artists associated with these movements, Ray was exposed to European avant-garde artists like Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque at Alfred Stieglitz’s New York gallery and at the 1913 Armory Show. Ray’s photographic works are considered his most profound achievement, particularly his portraits, fashion photographs, and technical experiments with the medium, such as solarization and rayographs (an eponym for his photograms), which were celebrated by the Surrealists. “I do not photograph nature,” he once said. “I photograph my visions.” In 1915 he was introduced to Marcel Duchamp, who would become a lifelong friend and influence; he subsequently moved to Paris, practicing there for over 20 years.
Man Ray met Juliet Browner in Hollywood, CA in 1940 on a blind date. The same year he painted this portrait. Juliet was the former girlfriend of Willem de Kooning, and she was an aspiring dancer and model. She became Man Ray’s muse, and six years later they had a joint wedding with artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning. Juliet was Man Ray’s last lover and closest friend. They remained married for thirty years until his passing in 1976. The portrait is only one of two known paintings of Juliet. It depicts her wearing a blue tunic, with her head of short, curly brown hair thrown back. He was enchanted with her beauty, but this portrait distills her features into a few key characteristics – emphasizing her posture. The portrait shows Juliet from the shoulders up with her eyes closed, which reflects the artist’s early fascination with her mind and spirit. The painting represents a pivotal moment for the artist: when he met the love of his life; the beginning of a bond that would shape Man Ray’s career and legacy.

SIGNATURE
Signed and dated lower left "Man Ray 1940"

EXHIBITIONS
Frank Perls Gallery (Hollywood, CA), "Man Ray. Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Photographic Compositions," 1941.
Track 16 Gallery and Robert Berman Gallery (Paris, France and Los Angeles, CA) "Man Ray: Paris ~ LA," 1996.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Man Ray: Paris ~ LA" Track 16 Gallery / Robert Berman Gallery, 1996, page 36
PRESS
The New Yorker, "Ray in Love" September 30, 1996 P. 74

Tom Wesselmann Seascape Study
DESCRIPTION
This piece is registered with the Tom Wesselmann Estate under the Studio Archive no. 96-2 and has been confirmed with Brian Kenny of the Tom Wesselmann Estate, New York.

SIGNATURE
Signed, titled, dated and inscribed '1996 / SEASCAPE STUDY 96-2 Wesselmann 96' on the overlap